COMPLETE TEST PAPER SECTION 2 STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN

COMPLETE TEST (PAPER) SECTION 2 STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION Time-25 minutes (including the reading of the directions) Now set your clock for 25 minutes This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type.

Structure Directions: Questions 1 -15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Fill in the space so that letter inside the oval cannot be seen. Look at the following examples. Example I The President ______ the election by a landslide. (A) won (B) he won (C) yesterday (D) fortunately Sample Answer (B) (C) (D)

The sentence should read, “ The President won the election by a landslide. ” Therefore, you should choose (A). Example II When ______ the conference? (A) the doctor attended (B) did the doctor attend (C) the doctor will attend (D) the doctor’s attendance Sample Answer (A) (C) (D) The sentence should read, “When did the doctor attend the conference? ” Therefore, you should choose (B)

Now begin on the questions. 1. ______, the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the skin. 2. (A) It is the epidermis 3. (B) In the epidermis 4. (C) The epidermis 5. (D) The epidermis is 2. 3. 4. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca ______ of Humphrey Bogart’s more famous roles. (A) they are two (B) two of them are (C) two of them (D) are two The compound microscope has not one ______ two lenses. (A) and also (B) but

(C) and there are (D) but there are 4. During the Precambrian period, the Earth’s crust formed, and life ______ in the seas. (A) first appeared (B) first to appear (C) is first appearing (D) appearing 5. The hard palate forms a partition ______ and nasal passages. (A) the mouth (B) between the mouth (C) is between the mouth (D) it is between the mouth

6. Conditions required for seed germination include abundant water, an adequate supply of oxygen, and ______. (A) the temperatures must be appropriate (B) having appropriate temperatures (C) appropriate temperatures (D) appropriately temperate 7. When fluid accumulates against the eardrum, a second more insidous type of ______. (A) otitis media may develop (B) developing otitis media (C) the development of otitis media (D) to develop otitis media 8. Some general theories of motivation ______ of central motives, from which other motives develop.

(A) (B) (C) (D) 9. identify a limited number identification of a limited amount identifying a limited number Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the. United States, newspapers invited the public to help determine where ______ placed after its arrival. (A) should the statue be (B) the statue being (C) it should be the statue (D) the statue should be 10. Hydroelectric power can be produced by ______ and using tidal flow to run turbines. (A) water basins are dammed (B) damming water basins

(C) to dam water basins (D) dams in water basins 11. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, ______ of the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, were both born in Kentucky. (A) they were opposing presidents (B) were opposing presidents (C) opposing presidents (D) presidents opposed 12. A stock ______ at an inflated price is called a watered stock. (A) issued (B) is issued (C) it is issued (D) which is issued 13. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for silkworms, ______ silk fabrics are woven.

(A) (B) (C) (D) whose cocoons from cocoons whose cocoons are from whose cocoons 14. Not only ______ generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors. (A) a nuclear breeder reactor (B) it is a nuclear breeder reactor (C) does a nuclear breeder reactor (D) is a nuclear breeder reactor 15. D. W. Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and film making techniques ______ as the Hollywood standard. (A) that established (B) that became established

(C) what established (D) what became established

Written Expression Directions: In questions 16 -40, each sentence has four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on the answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Look at the following examples. Example I The four string on a violin are tuned in fifths. A B C D Sample Answer (A) (C) (D)

The sentence should read, ”The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths. ” Therefore, you should choose (B). Example II The research for the book Roots taking Alex Haley twelve years. A B C D Sample Answer (A) (B) (D) The sentence should read, “The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years. ” Therefore, you should choose (C).

Now begin work on the question. 16. Mosquitos will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the 17. A B C 18. parasite’s complex life cycle. 19. D 17. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive proton. 18. A B C D 18. The ankle joint occur where the lower ends of the tibia and fibula slot 19. A B 20. neatly around the talus. 21. C D 19. In the United States and Canada, motor vehicle laws affect the 20. A B 21. operate of motorcycles as well as automobiles. 22. C D

20. The necortex is, in evolutionary terms, most recent layer of the brain. A B C D 21. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the National 22. A B 23. Museum of Natural History’s collection of biological, geological, 24. C 25. archeological, and anthropology treasures. D 22. After George Washington married widow Martha Custis, the couple 23. A B 24. came to resides at Mount Vernon. 25. C D 23. At this stage in their development, rubberized asphalt can hardly be 24. A B C 25.

1. 2. 3. 4. classified as cutting edge. D Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shy similar to those in humans. A B C D 25. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body 26. A B C 27. becomes weakly. 28. D 26. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can 27. A B 28. be reach only by boat or plane. 29. C D 27. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a 28. A B C

1. 2. 3. 4. camera and on the light-sensitive tube of a television camera. D Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speedof sound. A B C D 29. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among 30. A 31. the largest and most elaborate cliff dwellings in the country. 32. B C D 30. It is common observztions that liquids will soak through some 31. A B 32. materials but not through other. 33. C D

31. The number of wild horses on Assateague are increasing lately, 32. A B 33. resulting in overgrazed marsh and dune grasses. C D 32. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which formed part of 33. 34. every moviegoer’s experience in the era before television, offer an 35. A B C 36. unique record of the events of the 1930 s. 37. D 33. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not have nets. 34. A B C D 34. Born in Massachusets in 1852, Albert Farbanks has begun making 35. A B C

1. 2. banjos in Boston in the late 1870 s. D 35. Dwight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president 36. A 37. of the United States, lived in the White House and of least thirty 38. B C 39. seven other residences. 40. D 36. Methane in wetlands comes from soil bacteria that comsumes 37. A B C 38. organic plant matter. 39. D 37. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the 38. A B

1. 2. disesase that today bears his name. C D 38. Edward Mac. Dowell remembers as the composer of such perennial 39. A B C 40. favorites as “To a Wild Rose” and “To a Water Lily. ” 41. D 39. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as 40. A B 41. rivers, rocks, and wind are live and have feelings. 42. C D 40. Newtonian physics accounts for the observing orbits of the planets 41. A B C D 42. and the moons.

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